The ledger on the counter has been there longer than anyone in the family can remember. Then a young relative comes home from a big city and asks a strange question: “Which item actually makes us money?” Key takeaways Many long-running shops and trading...
Drive a few minutes out of Manjeri and the view changes. Coconut palms, paddy fields, banana plants, and rubber trees take over from the shopfronts. So here is a fair question: could founders building startups in town make something for the farmers next door? That is...
Picture a young founder in Manjeri with an idea to help patients remember their medicines. Down the road sit a government medical college and busy clinics. Could that founder walk over and test the idea with real doctors? Today, probably not. But the question is worth...
A 58 year old retired bank manager does not usually share a coworking table with a 24 year old app developer. At Silicon Jeri in Manjeri, that pairing is becoming normal. Most stories about this campus focus on young founders fresh out of college. There is another...
A few people who first walked into Silicon Jeri to work for someone else’s company have since walked out to start their own. That is not an accident. It is what happens when a coworking campus keeps founders, developers, and early employees close enough to talk...
